After the landslide by Germany's right-extremist AfD, the head of the editorial board for Springer's Welt--and Politico and Business Insider in the U.S.--trumpets: "The left is over."
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Only in your dreams, Helge. Only in your dreams...
Well, they've been pretty actively supporting the extreme right...
@jeffjarvis One of Putin's most-valuable employees.
In Die Zeit, meanwhile, my friend Jochen Wegner cautions: "The German AfD, however, is going in the opposite direction: it is growing ever larger and more radical.... Research is unusually unanimous on this point: those who adopt the right-wing's platform strengthen the right wing."
Der blaue Sturm
https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-09/demokratie-aufbruch-sachsen-anhalt-landtagswahl
@jeffjarvis
Under Merz CDU has changed to "knows everything", "can do anything" ... and stopped listening to the warning voices.
They repeatedly make clear, they have not understood that this disaster is one of their own making. 🙊🙉🙈
